Meanings
nounassemblance (countable and uncountable, plural assemblances)
plural assemblances · alternative assemblaunce
- countableobsoleteuncountableResemblance; likeness; appearance.
[C]are I for the limbe, the thevves, the ſtature, bulke and big aſſemblance of a man: giue me the ſpirit […]
c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii] - countableobsoleteuncountableAn assembling; assemblage.
[…] A rout of people farre away; / To whom his courſe he haſtily applide, / To weete the cauſe of their aſſemblaunce wide.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 230
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